Re: Netscape .debs conflict with perl5.004?
I agree wholeheartedly. It is probably safest at this point to do
upgrades with 'apt-get upgrade' rather than with dselect. Or run
'apt-get update' and see what packages it intends to keep back, say no,
go to dselect and put those packages on hold.
Bob
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 05:55:25PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> You have unstable in your sources.list file and unstable is VERY
> unstable right now with regards to perl, most likely lots of broken
> dependencies. Perl is being transitioned from 5.004 to 5.005 which is
> not as small of a change as it may appear from the version numbers. Read
> the debian-devel archives for the details. Basically if you are using
> any thing in unstable that needs perl then expect major problems for a
> while until everything settles down. It's called unstable for a reason.
>
> Brian
>
>
> *- On 6 Jul, Brian Boonstra wrote about "Netscape .debs conflict with perl5.004?"
> > Hi
> >
> > I seem to have some incompatible dependencies in trying to obtain
> > Netscape version 4.6 from the .debs. My problem is that, according to the
> > dependency resolution screens (I copy and paste from various conflict
> > readouts here):
> >
> > navigator-smotif-461 depends on netscape-base-4 (>= 10)
> > netscape-base-4 depends on liburi-perl
> > liburi-perl depends on libmime-base64-perl
> > liburi-perl depends on perl (>= 5.004)
> > libmime-base64-perl depends on perl-5.005
> > perl-5.005 depends on perl-5.005-base
> > perl-5.005-base conflicts with perl
> >
> > so basically perl (which is v5.004) is somehow keeping me from installing.
> > I'm no expert here, but I'm savvy enough to know my /etc/apt/sources.list may
> > have something to do with this. Please find it below.
> >
> > One thing I *have* tried is the "Q" option in dselect to override the
> > dependencies. This doesn't seem to work, as dselect fails to download and
> > install the netscape .debs anyway. My question is, what is the "right" way
> > to solve this dilemma?
> >
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > sources.list:
> >
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
> > deb http://debian.midco.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/deb/binary-i386 /
> > deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/
> > deb ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/gnome-1.0/debian slink main
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Brian
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